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    Let's improve our résumés & cover letters! (Job hunting advice)

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    I need help getting media companies interested in me.

    I have a resume and demo reel, but my in-person interviews have been going poorly. Sometimes I'm told that I have no enthusiasm (not true, I'm very enthusiastic about my work)

    This is for video production and motion graphics by the way, not music. I can confidently edit sound effects and mix audio elements though, that's what I tell them.

    Why Don't You Remix New VGM?

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    I think Brandon is hinting at a small OCR crisis. Has anyone else noticed community activity feels a little thin lately? We see the same familiar posters day by day, not much new blood.

    In my opinion, a lot of people listen to video game remixes for a nostalgia trip.

    Yeah, OCR's major export is nostalgia. Except it's the nostalgia of the 90s and 80s. So where is the kid who grew up with Halo 2 as their first game and why are they not in OCR, trying to produce music? Moreover, the style of posted remixes for newer games is often 90s electronica or de-makes into chiptunes.

    It's not just that, because it ties into the argument about modern VGM leaving less room for interpretation.

    I think an orchestral piece lends itself to Zedd-style electronica, or maybe the complex, glitchy style of Noisia. There's lateral shifts in form that are equally complex as orchestration.

    Just saying, there might be a relevance issue that OCR faces down the road, as more of its producers grow up.

    Titanfall

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    This game plays like loves feels.

    Love is putting your mech in auto and harassing the backmost enemy mech with rodeo. He gets out to kill you. Cloak. He gets back in. Rodeo again. Over and over.

    Because auto-mech is fairly intelligent, you can use your mech as an on-the-spot distraction and sneak behind. The perfect lure.

    *is mad with power*

    Titanfall

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    Some advice: Call your titan, but exit it as soon as you get in and set it to follow you -- you then have an AI titan guarding you that just stomps most people. Just avoid other titans!

    I'm too focused on entering my Titan in style though.

    I love all the titans except the third one. His gun is not satisfying. Also not satisfying? Microsoft's servers being down for hours.

    I didnt get in yet.

    Follow Origin on Facebook, sometimes they give out more codes.

    Bravely Default: Return of old school Final Fantasy

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    Hmm, how so? I was looking at getting a 2DS rather than a 3DS, and hadn't heard anything about games looking weird on the 2DS.

    I was playing the demo and noticed the foreground was very blurry. I guessed this was a forced depth of field effect to save on processing actual depth of field. With a 2DS obviously I can't play in 3D, so it looked kind of strange.

    I downloaded the demo again just to be sure and yeah, I can't tell if the slight blur to everything is just how the art is? My eyes keep wanting to put the blurry things into focus. Beautiful art.. I love my 2DS though and probably won't give it up :/

    "Has Video Game Music Lost Its Way?"

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    I think it's funny video games are still aspiring to Hollywood, in a time of declining interest and innovation in AAA productions. Now's the chance to break away from that and become the new leading entertainment industry, and we get.. massive, forgettable scores.

    That said, the guy seems to narrowly define the appeal of game music. Now that we have the technical option of putting any type of music in games, why wouldn't we? People are going to expand styles and not just rely on strong melodies.

    Nintendo Wii U

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    They could bring back Banjo Kazooie and have ten pre-orders committed by me.

    I'd love a sequel to Nuts and Bolts using the Gamepad, but noo, instead of JonTron setting the record straight on that game, he put the nail in the franchise's coffin.

    So, Nintendo, make a new IP like you did with Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion. I don't care about the commercial success of those amazing games, I just need more of them. On my Wii U.

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